Leftist Moron Witch-hunt Logic

---by Micheal

The image at left is one of a series of "public service" ads sponsored by the World Wildlife Federation. The ostensible goal was to encourage more planting of trees. A few were cute, such as the one on a fig tree seedling saying "Preventing nudity since Adam and Eve." Most, however, were blatant leftist politics only scantily clad as environmentalism. The one shown at left was the most absurd, though revealing of an unfortunate left-wing mind set which is all too prevalent these days.

Don't get me wrong. I like trees. I plant trees. What I find moronic beyond comprehension is the political message.

The message? George W. Bush, the man, is the embodiment of all that is wrong with the world -- or ever HAS been wrong with the world. If we can just get rid of HIM, everything on earth will become nirvana, or heaven or whatever happy-place is in vogue for New Agers nowadays.

If they weren't serious, I could laugh at the absurdity. Trouble is, they are serious. They truly believe that all our world's ills are the direct fault of, and maintained by George W. Bush. That's just moron logic. Back to the little tree bag in the photo. If we didn't have George Bush we would not have wars? They should be kidding, but they're not. They really think this way. Were they all born just last year? Is Iraq the only war they know of? Are they unable to read history books?

Wars have been around long before there was even a name "George." For the history-deprived, I point to President Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) who ran on a No-War platform in 1916 and won. Only a few months later, he brought America into World War One. Perhaps I need to point out to the recently-born leftists that World War One was started before George Bush was alive. Heck, WWI started before even his father George H.W. was born. In WWI, the popular cry was "Down with the Kaiser!" Get rid of HIM and war will be over. And don't forget the Wilson administration's mantra for going to war in Europe: it was The War to End All War.

Right. That worked out pretty well, didn't it? Never mind those messy details like WWII or Korea or Vietnam and all those subsequent wars (American and otherwise) which happened anyway -- even though we won and the Kaiser was deposed.

Getting rid of Bush will not end wars any more than deposing the Kaiser did. It will not end violence in the mideast. It will not make the Arabs suddenly like the Jews. It will not make the combatants in Darfur suddenly tranquil. Bush is not the source of war -- mankind is -- and will remain so long after Bush is gone. It is patently moronic to actually think that removing Bush from office will stop war -- any war.

The perverse reasoning underlying the WWF ad copy reminds me of an historical event (which young liberals don't read, apparently.) It's the 1870s. American explorer Paul DuChaillu is in a remote central African village. A local man died of some sickness. The witch doctor declares that it was not "natural" for a young man to die, so it must have been witchcraft. Someone in the village must be a witch. He goes into a drug-enhanced trance and reveals that a young village woman is the witch. Who knew? She was such a nice girl. She denies emphatically being a witch, but the crowd, desperate to be rid of the source of evil among them, chants for her death. DuChaillu was helpless to stop the mob. They kill her and disperse back to their huts, feeling they've rid their village of the witch. That is, until the next person gets sick.

It's become popular, if not expected, for trendy liberals to adopt this exact same tribal mob mentality. Such leftist logic as the WWF is sponsoring can only disappoint everyone who buys into it. It's total foolishness to let ourselves get whipped up by a witch doctor into thinking that if we can just get rid of Bush that the black clouds will part and a golden new Jerusalem will descend from heaven -- the lion lie down with the lamb, etc. etc.

George Santayana said: "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Wake up and smell the history books, people. Do you REALLY want to keep going through this?

Hummingbird

-- by Dave Buhlman

It was reported this week that one in four teenage girls have a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and that this results in about three million infected teenage girls.

How did this happen?

When we older ones were growing up as teenagers in the sixties, sex was a big deal. Outside of Woodstock and the hippie culture, getting any sexual activity for a guy was difficult. Girls were quite careful about giving in, in part due to a concern of earning a reputation as a loose or easy girl. Of course, another aspect was fear of pregnancy. This was before abortion on demand and birth control became the norm. It was also before the government school system started immersing school kids in all sorts of sexual indoctrination. This latter scheme was a permission slip to go out and do whatever it pleased you to do in the sexual realm.

There are a number of expensive medicines that have been produced to counter the ill effects of this raging promiscuity to treat or prevent some forms of STD. Abstinence would work better, but that is scoffed at by those who control the government school system. On another front, to purportedly prevent cervical cancer, drug behemoth Merck is trying to mandate through state governments that its product - Gardasil - be introduced into the young bodies of female children as young as nine years old. Nine years old! The fact that a number of deaths have been attributed to Gardasil does not slow this greed-fueled freight train one bit.

So I guess too many people, except the parents and grandparents of these kids, is happy with sexual activity being so prevalent. But there has been a reaction, as indicated by some kids who have tried the free sex (though, of course, protected, protected, protected sex) encouraged by the government school system and many advertisers, and found it wanting. This group of girls and boys has pledged to hold off on sex until marriage. If this group grows too large, drug company’s sales and profits will suffer, which would be a shame. And shame is an uncommon emotion these days. Ask Elliot Spitzer and others.

So the whole circus of encouraging sexual activity and then pushing drugs to solve the inevitable problems, along with yet more sexual “education”, is akin to a circular firing squad. Of course, in politics, as we should know by now, nothing happens by accident and, as one wag stated, problems and solutions are oftentimes cooked up in the same government laboratory.

Or, it’s like the hummingbird who flies around in ever-decreasing concentric circles, until it flies up its own a..

This hummingbird is also flying around gas stations in America in echoes of past calamities. In post-WW I Germany (pre-Nazi, around 1923), Germans would try to buy bread early in the morning because the hyperinflation caused by the bad treaty that ended WW I (and assured there would be a WW II) resulted in the price of bread increasing dramatically during even one day. Some Americans are proceeding similarly with buying gas. Get it in the morning, for it will likely be at least a couple of cents higher per gallon by nightfall. See you at the pumps.

Dave Buhlman is a former New Hampshire State Representative and published author who favors returning our government to the Constitutional Republic created by the Framers.

Hampton Union 02-29-08

By Ron Dupuis
Last Tuesday was quite a busy day for me, your humble, succinct, yet mildly humorous columnist. The evening before had been spent reviewing all the latest "global warming," or in this case, global "cooling" data available. It seems that all four major global temperature tracking outlets in the world are reporting that the earth is naturally cooling and the polar ice caps that Al Gore predicted will melt and "change life as we know it" are in essence going through a normal cycle. Well-credentialed scientists without political agendas are telling us that the factor not considered by the Gore ilk is the impact the activity of the sun has on climate cycles for the past 10,000 years renders man's contribution over the past hundred years as minuscule. I can't wait to confront my metaphoric friend and favorite conservationist "Peter Borough" with this news.

When dawn broke it became clear that it was time for breakfast with the Hampton Rotarians at the Ashworth.

If you are unfamiliar with the Rotary, it is an organization of business and professional people dedicated to improving the quality of life in its own community and worldwide. The meetings are fun and up-lifting and members define what charity is all about. Without endorsement, Rotarians often give candidates seeking office an opportunity to present positions on issues affecting all of us. Congressional candidate John Stephen had his turn.

Stephen spoke about sending New Hampshire values to Washington instead of bringing Washington values and mandates to New Hampshire. He spoke of back-breaking budget deficits laced with earmarks for fruit fly research in France, bridges to nowhere, and air-conditioned trash trucks. His take on health care was particularly poignant. He related a story of being told by a woman who, given the chance, could purchase critically needed Pedialyte for her special needs child at $2 a bottle at Wal-Mart, instead of the government paying triple that for her. Stephen stated that instead of a national health care system, "we need a system that brings the consumer into the game and empowers them to make decisions."

This column is not quite ready to endorse John Stephen right now, however, In My Humble Opinion, John Stephen displayed a fire in the belly for conservative values and principles not yet seen in the competition.

The rest of the day was spent in meetings with numerous current and former politicians wishing to relate their feelings on everything from both the Democratic and Republican primaries, to the perceived best pitching rotation of the Sox. All very nondescript and mind numbing.

Finally, a laid-back and informal meeting with North Hampton Police Chief Brian Page. Page asked me to inform North Hampton residents about a survey that will be posted online at www.northhampton-nh.gov . He told me that the Board of Selectmen hired an outside company that specializes in helping municipalities achieve efficiency in providing services to the community. He further stated that he wholeheartedly supports this move and hopes that the North Hampton citizens will take a few minutes to goon line and complete the questionnaire.

"We want to know how the citizens feel about our department, both good and bad" he said with a smile. When he was informed that there may be a few convicted felons who may not say good things, he responded with a smile "Even convicted felons have an opinion. We have a good department, we can take it."

"In My Humble Opinion" endorses this survey, endorses North Hampton Police Department, and endorses Chief Page. He can take it.

Ron Dupuis is a longtime New Hampshire resident, a former state representative, and a freelance writer. His e-mail is drcdupuis@comcast.net.

NEGATIVITY

By Dave Buhlman

In the 1972 presidential campaign, Democratic nominee, Senator George McGovern, presented the idea of a negative income tax, an idea so left wing it was not even listed in Karl Marx's Ten Planks in his Communist Manifesto. McGovern was scoffed at and went on to lose 49 states to Richard Nixon. McGovern, not surprisingly, took Massachusetts. I remember the headline in the San Francisco Examiner soon after the election in November 1972, "The Bay City Salutes the Bay State." Today, after many years pushing hard and Massachusetts approving same-sex "marriage," that headline could read, "The Gay City Salutes the Gay State." Nice sentiment.

But McGovern's crazy idea was soon thereafter enshrined in federal law as the Earned Income Credit, whereby the federal government sends money to people who paid no federal taxes. Of course the federal government had been doing that for years with corporations, so maybe it wasn't that big a leap.

To continue on that theme of giving, and given the devaluation of the dollar, the federal government might decide to give negative interest to borrowers with bad credit histories. That is, a shaky borrower would be paid a certain percentage by the government to borrow money instead of having to pay it back in full. So, under this scheme, if you borrow $10,000 at minus five percent interest, the federal government sends you a one-time payment of $500. You still need to make some payments to the lender, but that will pass quickly as the negative interest erodes the amount of the principle you owe. This plan has a few bugs, and was also not included in the Communist Manifesto, but the wacky Earned Income Credit became part of America, so maybe this can too.

On another front, it is a joy to see Senator Barack Obama beating Senator Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton in the Democrat primaries. All three are, at a minimum, socialists, but this show is still interesting to follow. And presumptive Republican nominee, Senator John McCain, will pretty match both of them stride for stride in the march for socialism in America, so there's not a lot of difference between the two major parties. One thing disturbing about Senator Obama is that, so far as I know, he and those close to him, only emphasize that he is Black. But his mother was White, so why isn't that emphasized at all? Of course, it can't be racism because all involved are liberals. Of course.

Dave Buhlman is a former New Hampshire State Representative, published author, and supporter of our return to the Constitutional Republic.